County

State

National

HP 2020

Numerator

Number of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with high cholesterol

Population

Number of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries

2012 - Dimensions

Total

County Value: 50.83%Standard Error:0

Comparison of 121 Counties

50.83%

Low: 27.39High: 58.76

Historical Data

Dimension

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

Total

50.83%

51.43%

48.83%

48.40%

47.49%

DSU - Data statistically unreliable.

Methodology

The data value for this metric is the numerator divided by the denominator.

Medicare FFS beneficiaries limited to those who (a) have no months of HMO enrollment and (b) have both Part A and Part B for whatever portion of the year that they are covered by FFS Medicare (i.e., they have no months of A-only or B-only coverage).

Beneficiary age group (< 65 and 65+ ) was determined using the age of the individual at the end of the reference year or the individual's age at the time of death.

Of this population, beneficiaries with CCW HYPERL chronic condition flag values of "1" or "3'" were determined to have had high cholesterol

References

HRR documentation is posted at http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/methods/geogappdx.pdf

Data Source(s)

Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW)

Description
The Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW) is a research database designed to (1) identify areas for improving the quality of care provided to chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries; (2) identify ways to reduce program spending; and (3) make current Medicare data more readily available to researchers studying chronic illness in the Medicare population. The CCW contains fee-for-service institutional and non-institutional claims, enrollment/eligibility, and assessment data from 1999 forward for a random 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries (100% for 2005 forward). The data are linked by a unique, unidentifiable beneficiary key, which allows researchers to analyze information across the continuum of care.